Released 1980 The Best of Maynard Ferguson(1980) It's My Time(1980) Release date 1980 Genres Big band, Bebop | Length 54:10 Label Golden Music | |
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The Best of Maynard Ferguson is the first compilation album and 13th overall by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson on Columbia Records. The 1980 release opens with Maynard's biggest hit "Gonna Fly Now", before going on a tour of some of his best work for Columbia, featuring no less than 4 major theme songs along the way.
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Critical reception
The Best of Maynard Ferguson was not only an attempt to profit from Maynard's Columbia catalog while he was still in the public eye, it was an opportunity entice listeners to look beyond "Gonna Fly Now", and discover what came both before and after it. As AllMusic's Thom Jurek put it, "For the sake of argument, we'll look at this compilation as a decent if imperfect collection of the period of his greatest popularity..."
Personnel
Songs
1Gonna Fly Now (Theme From 'Rocky')4:25
2Mac Arthur Park8:28
3Theme From Star Trek4:57